The Justice Secretary has come under fire from a former Attorney-General for
failing to uphold the rule of law over Britain’s blanket ban on prisoners’
votes.

In a
letter to The Times today Lord Goldsmith says he was not
originally against the appointment of Chris Grayling, the first non-lawyer
to fill the the post of Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor.

But after Mr Grayling’s comments last week that Parliament had sovereignty
over rulings of the European Court of Human Rights, Lord Goldsmith now says
that his view was “wrong — or at least about this incumbent”.